Food Promotions Gone Horribly Wrong :)

Check this out.....here are a couple of fast food promotions that went, well, kinda bad. Read on!

- McDonald's Gives Away A Free Virus

You wouldn’t normally expect McDonald’s to run a promotion giving away free Trojans (Trojan viruses, that is). In Japan, McDonald’s gave away 10,000 MP3 players, fully loaded with 10 free songs. Problem is, many of them were also loaded with a QQPass Trojan virus that captured user info and sent it to hackers as soon as it was plugged into a computer. That’s 10,000 folks who weren’t necessarily lovin’ it.

- Pepsi's Ballgame Blowout

Here’s one that just happened. Earlier this month, Pepsi offered to give away 250 pairs of Yankee Stadium opening day tickets. But when the Pepsi reps showed up in Times Square, instead of the 250 pairs of the promised tickets, they showed up with just 100 sets, and most were for a game in June. As one would expect, this basically led to a mob scene, with angry fans yelling “Pepsi sucks!” and pouring cans of soda out on the street. Now is this the kind of hope they were talking about?

- Domino's Has Their Own Bailout

Have you noticed the recent trend of companies giving something back in these trying economic times? Car companies who suspend payments if you lose your job, restaurants that offer free food, and Domino’s giving away pizzas to anyone that types in the code “bailout.” Only problem is the promotion hadn’t actually been approved before the code got out and 11,000 free pies were given out. Company reps blamed the error on a computer glitch, or hackers. But Domino’s actually looked pretty good after this one for honoring the giveaway.